Rameau’s Nephew - Le Neveu de Rameau
A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition
In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to time is possessed with movements almost like spasms, in which he imitates, he gestures, he rants. And...
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Note de l’éditeur
Expanded Second Edition
Music researched and played by the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris under the direction of Pascal Duc.
Pascal Duc began his career in music working in the Direction régionale for Cultural Affairs in the Paris basin (the Île de France) and as administrator of the Festival of the Île de France. He met Philippe Herreweghe at a moment when the rediscovery of ancient music was taking off in France; this led to a collaboration round the Chapelle Royale with the Orchestre des Champs- Elysées. Pascal then became musical advisor to William Christie and Les Arts florissants. He still holds this post while being the Head of the Department of Early Music at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. Pascal has prepared a great number of working scores for Les Arts florissants, among which may be mentioned: Monteverdi’s Madrigals, Books 1 to 7 (8 and 9 are in preparation); Handel’s Belshazzar and Te Deum HWV 208; Fauré and Messager’s Mass for the Association of the Fishermen of Villerville, a version for choir, organ, and violin; Purcell’s Incidental Music for The Virtuous Wife; and for Distress’d Innocence.
- Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
- Collection : Open Book Classics | 4
- Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
- Année d’édition : 2016
- Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 01 juin 2017
- EAN (Édition imprimée) : 9781909254909
- EAN électronique : 9782821881730
- Nombre de pages : xi + 248 p.
Second Satyre
Satire 2de
In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to time is possessed with movements almost like spasms, in which he imitates, he gestures, he rants. And towards half past five, when the warning bell of the Opera sounds, they part, going their separate ways.
Probably completed in 1772-73, Denis Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew fascinated Goethe, Hegel, Engels and Freud in turn, achieving a literary-philosophical status that no other work by Diderot shares. This interacti ve, multimedia edition offers a brand new translation of Diderot’s famous dialogue, and it also gives the reader much more. Portraits and biographies of the numerous individuals mentioned in the text, from minor actresses to senior government officials, enable the reader to see the people Diderot describes, and provide a window onto the complex social and political context that forms the backdrop to the dialogue. Links to musical pieces specially selected by Pascal Duc and performed by students of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, illuminate the wider musical context of the work, enlarging it far beyond its now widely understood relation to opéra comique.
This new edition includes: Introduction, Original text, English translation, Embedded audio-files, Explanatory notes, Interactive material.
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